rascality

rascality
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. knavery, villainy, roguery, blackguardism. See improbity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. roguery, villainy, baseness, meanness, knavery, wickedness, culpability, guile, profligacy, chicanery, treachery, trickery, worthlessness, blackguardism, double-dealing, ruffianism, improbity, disreputability; see also crime 1 , dishonesty .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural). See GOOD.

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  • rascality — index artifice, deception, ill repute, improbity, knavery, mischief, misdoing Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • rascality — [ras kal′ə tē] n. 1. the character or behavior of a rascal 2. pl. rascalities a low, mean, or dishonest act …   English World dictionary

  • rascality — noun The behavior of a rascal. The two of them engaged in all kinds of rascality in college …   Wiktionary

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  • rascality — noun (plural ties) Date: circa 1577 1. rabble 2. a. the character or actions of a rascal ; knavery b. a rascally act …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • rascality — /ra skal i tee/, n., pl. rascalities. 1. rascally or knavish character or conduct. 2. a rascally act. [1570 80; RASCAL + ITY] * * * …   Universalium

  • rascality — ras·cal·i·ty || ræ skælÉ™tɪ /rɑː n. roguishness, dishonesty, mischievousness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • rascality — n. Knavery, knavishness, wickedness, villany, dishonesty, trickery, chicane, chicanery, fraud …   New dictionary of synonyms

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